Friday Night, Cool and Calm

[madeleine]

Friday Night - low humidity, R at the Phillies' game and the whole house to myself :)

I found some really cool 1940s farm pictures in color. I'd love to put them on my wall

extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.html

Comments

[astrelsa]

Wow! Those are really something! I can understand why you'd like to have them on your wall.

[madeleine]

Someone commented at the end of the article, "That was before everybody got fat."

Um . . I think he/she missed the point that these were the years slightly after the depression and just before the Dust Bowl hit the Midwest.

Some of the people were homesteaders living in a dugout cabin. According to Wikipedia, a dugout is

also known as a pithouse, pit-house, earth lodge, mud hut, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground. These structures are one of the most ancient types of human housing known to archeologists.

No wonder they aren't fat!!

[astrelsa]

No kidding! They worked too hard and had too little to ever get fat!